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Blog post about switching to the pelican comment system
author Dirk Olmes <dirk@xanthippe.ping.de>
date Wed, 06 Jan 2016 16:43:18 +0100
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1 Title: Comments for this blog use pelican's comment system
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2 Date: 2016-01-06
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3 Lang: en
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5 One thing that annoyed me while [switching my blog to pelican](|filename|./blog-switched-to-pelican.md) was the lack of a good comment option. My motivation for self-hosting the blog is to have control over my data and that includes comments! The use of a cloud service like Disqus obviously defeats this purpose.
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7 I sat down and did my own [pelican plugin for comments](https://github.com/dirk-olmes/simple_comments) back then. It was fun to learn how to write pelican plugins but I only ever finished a very basic implementation.
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9 Recently, I stumbled over the [official pelican plugin for static comments](https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-plugins/tree/master/pelican_comment_system) and decided to give it a try. It turns out to be very similar in what I did but it's far more feature rich. So I ditched my plugin and switched over - that was easy.